Parliament of the World’s Religions
McCormick Place, Chicago Chicago, Illinois, United StatesInsights From Reality: Science as Interfaith Scripture. Sponsored by IRAS.
JD goes on writing retreat
The Boonies of Ohio!JD will isolate himself in the boonies of Ohio for two weeks to get his manuscript ready for professional editing.
UCH Banned Books Service
Unitarian Church of Harrisburg PA 1280 Clover Lane, Harrisburg, PA, United StatesJD co-designed this service with others at UCH.
Global Kinship webinar
Past guests have included some of my big-name heroes. This is a tremendous honor. I will deliver a modified version of my talk from the Parliament of the World's Religions: Nature's Scripture - The Interfaith Promise of Science. Registration is required: Register here. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpcuigpjItE9F-8VZ5hZe6NOMMaYb88K5q#/registration
This is Not My Beautiful House
UU Fellowship of Pottstown, PA 1565 South Keim Street, Pottstown, PennsylvaniaOne of our culture’s foundational myths is about ownership, security, and permanence. JD offers a bit of science, some personal experiences, and a Talking Heads song as puzzle pieces toward a new, more vulnerable humility.
Fargo-TBA
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesTBA
UUFGC-TBA
UU Fellowship of Greater Cumberland MD 211 South Lee St., Cumberland, MD, United StatesTBA https://tinyurl.com/UUFGCZoom
Grants Pass – Ancestors: Honoring Them, Becoming Them
UUs of Grants Pass OR 129 NW E ST., Grants Pass, OR, United StatesAncestors - everyone has them, and (spoiler alert!) most of them are dead. Euro-American culture isn’t very good at death; we are so scared of death we’ve perverted the one day each year our ancestors set aside for remembering them to instead focus on giving children candy and expressing our fear with giant inflatable spiders. […]
Pathways- This is Not My Beautiful House
Pathways UU Fellowship of Hurst TX 481 West Harwood Road, Hurst, TX, United StatesOne of our culture’s foundational myths is about ownership, security, and permanence. JD offers a bit of science, some personal experiences, and a Talking Heads song as puzzle pieces toward a new, more vulnerable humility.
Fargo – Building a New Way—DIY
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesJD describes lessons learned from his do-it-yourselfer father and grandfathers, and how those lessons might be applied to building a new way for our increasingly precarious global society. What kind of world do we want for our grandchildren, and for their grandchildren? Are we behaving accordingly? Building is not easy or comfortable—are we willing to […]
UUFGC – Nature’s Scripture: The Interfaith Promise of Science
UU Fellowship of Greater Cumberland MD 211 South Lee St., Cumberland, MD, United StatesUnderlying the human world of strife and separation is an oft-neglected landscape of commonality between faiths: the natural world. At precisely the time when our religious and political divisions threaten the existence of life on Earth, science offers a sweeping interfaith vista filled with revelations and insights as spiritually meaningful as ancient scriptures. Read as […]
JD’s latest Braver/Wiser essay comes out
Title and topic are a secret until published, but you can subscribe to this wonderful weekly inspirational here: https://www.uua.org/braverwiser